The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you. . . Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
Here you go, dear. "" The corners of Mrs. Colbert's mouth curled up. "You like meat, don't you?" Emily blinked. Was it her, or did that statement seem. . . loaded? She checked Issac for his reaction, but he was innocently selecting a roll from a wicker basket. "Uh, thanks. " Emily said, pulling the platter toward her. She did like meat. The kind you, um, eat.